Daily Republican., 1887-07-14
MURDERED IN THE STREET.
Joseph G. Kennedy, n Venerable Law
yer of Washington. Stabbed In broad
Daylight by John DALEY

yer of Washington. Stabbed in BROAD
| Daylight by John Daley
WASHINGTON. July 13-The most
ser satiOual murder that has occurred IL
| Washington since the assassi nation al
President Garfield was committed about
O'Clock this evening on the corner OF
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania ave,
nue., opposite the northeastern end o.
the Treasury Department Building.
Mr. Joseph @ Kennedy, an attoTne y
ana real estate agent, one OF the Oldest
residents Of Washington and q personal
acquaintance Of many Of the mos
prominent people Of the national cApi.
tai, was murdered in cold blood and
apparently without provocatiop, by
John Daley, q white laborer.
A Few minutes before 8 O'Clock Mr..
Kennedy left hts Office just above Riggs
Bank and crossed the street diagonalIy
to the opposite corner, where he mailed
several letters he then started to
| take car of the Fourth street railroad.
When he Was within few feet OF the
car, Daley, who had been loitering z
around the corner for several hours,
| walked up Dehini him, and drawing q
large keen bladsd knife similar to those
used by butchers in killing hogs, ran II
into Mr.. Kennedy 8 right side near the
abdomen with vicious lunge and the n
gave it a jerk sideways.
A crowd was on the corner at the
time, including many clerks In the
government departments, but they were
all 80 horrorstricken that for a moment
nobody moved. MIR. Kennedy fell to
the ground, and after giving one cry of
'murder," grosned deeply aud point ted
to his murderer, VINO made no atte m DIT
to escape. At this moment Henry
Mason, a oolored watch % an In the Safe
Deposit Building on the opposite corner,
hearing the cry ran out and supported
the wounded man as best he could. The
knife dropped out OF Mr.. Kenned y g
sldo at this Instant, and Mas ID resigned
the care OF the murdered man to q phs :
sician who bad come up.
Mas then seized Daley, who had
stood looking, apparently unc,ncsrpe cd =,
the most self possess ed man in the
crowd, which bad until now held aloof,
as If afraid to apprC sch the murderer.
Mr.. Kennedy expired in about five
m mlnutes, and bis body was removed to
the police station, where an inquest will
be held tomorrow morning.
The excitement rose rapidly and the
crowd grew boisteroas, threatening to
hang the murderer. Daley paid but
little attention 10 them, and refused to
say why he com united the crime. Once,
when provoked by the orc wd he turned
squareIy around and said eyes, killed
HIM; - him."
Tne Indignation OF the people became
30 great that Policeman Salkeld, VINO
had taken charge Of the murderer, re.
IL owed him to the drug store on the cor.
ner, where he was kept until the patrol
wagon came u 3 and carried him to the
station-bouse. He Ia man about fifty
years of age, ard apparently Is work
inRman. At the station house he told
o rambling and incohersnt story about
the affair, of which the general purport
was that K nueiy had wrouged his
father years ago, aud had secured prop.
erty worth $1,000 for 5000, and that he
refused to make restiI ution.
The murdered man was about 75 years
OF age, of an old Maryland family, and
one of the most respec ed citizens of
Washington. he was q grandson of
u licott, who, at the request of Presi.
dent Washington, surveyed the ten
miles square which was Incorporated
AS the District of Columbia In 1850
anu 1860 Mr. Kennedy was Comm Is.
sicner of thu Census He was promi-
nent poitic an In earlier days, and an
ar!ent Rdherent Of the old Wing party.
a. one time he edited the franklin
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